VazquezDesigns

 I was tasked with redesigning a book cover for this module, and I decided to pick the one of the best books I’ve read recently, Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley. The book is about a dystopian society, but instead of your straightforward dystopian society where everything is in ruins and the people are oppressed, the complete opposite is true. The people are well-off, have jobs that are tailored made for them, and everyone is open and free to be with everyone else. But Huxley shows that this way of life, although it seems glamorous and utopian on the surface is actually the more realistic way that a society would become dystopian.  I wanted to get at the heart of this book which is all about uniformity, freedom, and fidelity. It’s about being true to the doctrine of “his Fordship” and trying to be one with everyone else. This is expressed in one of their tenets “everyone belongs to everyone else” and the great lengths that they go to to make as many “Bokanovsky” twins. I...

I'm very excited for this module's project. I'm sure that many people can relate to the feeling of reading a book that would've been damn-near perfect if it wasn't for the subpar cover design. However, I don't necessarily feel this way about the book I picked (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ) but it just happened to be the last book that I read. My own copy has a person on the cover with gears and machine parts where a torso and head should be. The mixture of machine and human, along with the religious posture of the person all foreshadow how the society in Huxley's book is run like a Ford manufacturing plant and the religious devotion its citizens have to the government. The minimalist style really emphasizes the person/machine creature. And I don't think that my designs are better but they're hopefully as good. My first book cover sketch highlights the society's obsession with creating people who are a similar to each other as possible bec...

  First things first, I'm sure if you saw my awareness poster sketches you will know that this poster has nothing to do with biofuel, fossil fuels, or electrical power as an alternative to said fossil fuels. However, I happened upon an article this past week (which I will include a link to here , although it has a pay-wall) which I felt compelled to bring awareness to. The environment is still important, but I feel that a lot of people are already aware of the issues facing the environment, and they are either helping or not. But not everyone is aware of the degree to which migrant children are being exploited in the US.  In my research, I found out that these children, some as young as 12-years-old are working in the worst jobs. And many of them are actually crucial to products that we use everyday such as General Mills cereal or autoparts. So I decided to include a cereal that is produced by General Mills and which is familiar to most who have had Cheerios growing up. This c...